While playing games I noticed these constant freezes that made games almost unplayable. Looking at the Task Manager Performance tab I noticed that these coincided with spikes in disk usage. To fix this I thought that a Disk replacement was necessary. Replacing my old hdd with a new WD black 2tb. I cloned the the old hdd onto the new one thinking that the problem had to be fixed. To my amazement I was completely wrong and hoping back into games I experienced the same issues. One thing to note is that my ram usage is at 85-99%. Is my hdd defective or somehow cloning mess everything up?
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Disk usage constantly at 100%
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SuperSoph_WD
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Welcome to the community, @rune_3!
I'm sorry to hear about your issues with your new WD Black. However, if the old HDD was failing, you shouldn't have cloned it as it would also copy the corrupted data. I'd strongly recommend you backup all your data somewhere off-site and then proceed with the troubleshooting. This is how you will avoid any potential data loss.
I'd advise you to go Task Manager/Resource Monitor and see what is using the HDD so much. It would also be a good idea to run a anti-malware scan and make sure the system is not infected. I'd also suggest you disable some of the Windows Services that could be causing such HDD usage (SuperFetch & BITs).Another thing that could help is swapping the SATA cable and the SATA port where the WD black is connected to the motherboard.
If all of these don't help you with the usage, I'd advise you to consider performing a clean install of the OS. Just make sure you already have a duplicate of your files somewhere off-site. The clean install will wipe all personal data.
Let me know how it goes!
SuperSoph_WD
I'm sorry to hear about your issues with your new WD Black. However, if the old HDD was failing, you shouldn't have cloned it as it would also copy the corrupted data. I'd strongly recommend you backup all your data somewhere off-site and then proceed with the troubleshooting. This is how you will avoid any potential data loss.
I'd advise you to go Task Manager/Resource Monitor and see what is using the HDD so much. It would also be a good idea to run a anti-malware scan and make sure the system is not infected. I'd also suggest you disable some of the Windows Services that could be causing such HDD usage (SuperFetch & BITs).Another thing that could help is swapping the SATA cable and the SATA port where the WD black is connected to the motherboard.
If all of these don't help you with the usage, I'd advise you to consider performing a clean install of the OS. Just make sure you already have a duplicate of your files somewhere off-site. The clean install will wipe all personal data.
Let me know how it goes!
SuperSoph_WD
update: after I had posted this thread my wd black started getting the error "boot configuration file is missing." I used this Tutorial http://www.laptopmag.com/articles/fix-0xc0000034-error-windows-10
But got the error requested system device cannot be found. So was forced to go back to my previous hdd. I am looking into doing a clean install on a different hdd and will see how that goes.
But got the error requested system device cannot be found. So was forced to go back to my previous hdd. I am looking into doing a clean install on a different hdd and will see how that goes.
SuperSoph_WD
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Hey there again, @rune_3!
Thanks for getting back and sharing more troubleshooting steps you have taken. I agree that a clean install might actually make all the difference and help you resolve the issue, if it's software-related. Just remember to unplug any secondary HDD from the system when performing the fresh Windows install. Having more than one SATA device could result in an OS confusion and cause further booting issues. Once you have Windows Up and running onto the primary drive, you can plug the secondary ones and re-format them, if they contain system files from a previous OS install.
Make sure you backup all your important files off-site before tampering with the storage configuration, though! In case you haven't done this already. If the issue is still present, It might also be a good idea to run the QUICK and EXTENDED tests on the WD Black from our Data LifeGuard Diagnostics for Windows. This will help us determine the health and SMART status of the drive.
Good luck & keep me posted!
SuperSoph_WD
Thanks for getting back and sharing more troubleshooting steps you have taken. I agree that a clean install might actually make all the difference and help you resolve the issue, if it's software-related. Just remember to unplug any secondary HDD from the system when performing the fresh Windows install. Having more than one SATA device could result in an OS confusion and cause further booting issues. Once you have Windows Up and running onto the primary drive, you can plug the secondary ones and re-format them, if they contain system files from a previous OS install.
Make sure you backup all your important files off-site before tampering with the storage configuration, though! In case you haven't done this already. If the issue is still present, It might also be a good idea to run the QUICK and EXTENDED tests on the WD Black from our Data LifeGuard Diagnostics for Windows. This will help us determine the health and SMART status of the drive.
Good luck & keep me posted!
SuperSoph_WD
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